Leaders for Vacaville Unified and the district”s classified, or school support, employees have signed a tentative agreement to boost wages by 3.75 percent for the 2013-14 year, the first salary hike for union members in six years.

Settled on Tuesday, the contract calls for a 2.25 percent wage hike and a one-time, 1.5 percent salary “adjustment” after the 2.25 percent increase goes into effect. The wage hike — the same package as the teachers union hammered out late last week — is retroactive to July 1.

George Glover, the longtime president of the Vacaville chapter of Local 1021 of the Service Employees International Union, sent copies of the agreement to the labor unit”s 400 members, a group that includes bus drivers and cafeteria workers, mechanics and custodians, among other job types.

Plans are to complete voting on the new pay pact by Nov. 7, the same day as a district governing board meeting, where trustees likely will approve labor contracts.

“It”s good news,” said Glover, a maintenance and operations worker for the 12,500-student district. “It”s better than what we”ve gotten in the past. Hopefully, we can start going forward from here.”

In talks with the union since last spring, district officials sounded equally pleased and optimistic about this latest wage agreement.

“The unions allowed us that time,” he said Wednesday. “I believe we made the best decision for our district going forward.”

Glover recalled several years of pay cuts, flat funding and “give backs,” furlough days, including some last year that resulted in a 2.6 percent reduction in salary.

He said most union members have reacted positively to the news of the tentative wage agreement.

“Our (negotiating) team thought it was a good settlement and our membership is taking it that way,” he said.

Henry said two other district employee sectors have yet to settle on pay agreements but may do so by the next board meeting. They include classified management (directors of maintenance, child nutrition, finance, among others), principals and other administrators, and a handful of so-called “confidential” employees, or secretaries privy to confidential district information.

The district”s three superintendents, including Superintendent Ken Jacopetti, Assistant Superintendent Danielle Storey and Chief Business Official Kari Sousa, also have yet to settle.